I respectfully disagree with your interpretation. You can connect the
dots in any way you wish. I personally see them as progressing
somewhere, not riding off into the sunset.
But these are all guesses either way, and I would highly recommend to
anyone reading your final statement to take into consideration that it
is in no way based in fact.
- John
On 11/5/11 1:57 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
All you have to do is connect the dots on the decisions they've
already made. It's not unreasonable to draw a line from where they've
gone recently to estimate where they are going.
It wouldn't have hurt Apple to allow virtualization of SL on foreign
hardware one bit. But they don't care to put in any effort to make
that happen. And it doesn't appear to hurt Apple to support UEFI and
yet thus far they continue to use a non-standard implementation that
makes it difficult to impossible to support other OS's on Apple
hardware.
So for anyone looking for even remotely serious server solutions it
totally means abandoning Apple hardware and OS.
On Nov 5, 2011, at 9:47 AM, John May wrote:
FYI, Apple has in no way said OS X Server has been dropped. That
is a *huge* assumption of the direction they are going to take.
I have a feeling that, just like FCP X, they retooled OS X Server
in 10.7, and we will see continued improvement - not
discontinuation - of it in the future. Sometimes it's two steps
forward and one step back.
- John
On 11/5/11 3:51 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
Of course, Apple is a business and has no responsibility to its
customers?!
What saddens me is that Mac OS X Server was really starting to
work well (at least for me). I remember starting back with
Server 10.0 when nothing worked (and I spent days and days
finding out ;-) It's somewhat like when they dropped the Newton
way back when (it was just starting to really work well).
But more specifically I am annoyed that all the information (and
links - the web of information) we have inside the Mac OS X
Server wiki is trapped - there seems no easy way to export to
another wiki. At least organisations should provide some way for
customers to preserve their investments when they leave a
market.
Also, I am unsure about the fidelity of saving files on other
server filesystems. There used to be filename restrictions /
incompatibilities (AFAIK) with using non-HFS+ file systems (and
file serving protocols, e.g. NFS) on the server, and open-source
HFS implementations were always behind Apple.
Already, of course, my SLS doesn't provide versioning facilities
for files saved to the server.
Cheers, Ashley.
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